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They were disrespected, they say this very clear, ‘Even animals are better treated than us.’ So, how can you feel respected as a human being?

So, my name is Carolyne and I’m a psychiatrist, a childhood and adolescent psychiatrist.

There is no therapeutic solution about mental health if they are stuck there. And they say it in such a clear way, ‘This is violation of my human rights. I am a child, I was supposed to go to the school. I used to have dreams but all of them are burned here.’ And it’s true.

And in the same way they say, ‘I arrived [when I was] seven or I arrived [when I was] five, I lost all my childhood.’ It’s true also.

So you listen to all of these histories over, and over, and over, about a loss of a period of life you cannot come back. You cannot come back in time, it’s impossible and for sure they lose a very important time of their life.

They are put into a lot of bullying situations in that community.

They couldn’t remember their names for a while because they were called by numbers. We are talking about human beings. We are talking about losing their humanity. This is a person that is seven years, or five, how is it possible to keep having hope in something when you forgot who you are?

I have a child who is 11 that I think had the perfect description. She told me, ‘You know when a flower starts losing the leaves in the autumn? Yeah, this is how I feel but there is no spring. There is no possibility, I lose everything I have, all my hopes fell.